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Colouring old black and white image?

Hi Guys

I have an image of an old black and white photograph of a historical figure, which I would like to convert to colour.

The photograph was taken in 1918 and it is of poor quality but no scratches or dents. The copy is taken out of an old newspaper.

I wonder of anyone here can advice me on how to change it to a colour in the highest quality possible as I am adding the result to a professional website.

I tried few tricks myself but I am still not happy with the result and I know some of you here are highly talented and will be able to help producing a professional finish.

I need the photograph to look like it was taken in colour originally. If it is possible?

I could e-mail the image if you need to see it.

Thank you

Hi,
Did u try this tutorial http://www.kirupa.com/photoshop/colorization.htm ? It's very easy,hope it helps.

I'm almost positive that there have been many similiar questions such as this, so if student's link does not work make sure to use the forum's Search button.

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Nick
Pixel-Infinity

Thank you guys for the replies.

I have tried that already and the result is good but still not top class in my opinion!

Maybe I have to put up with it as it is an old photograph and it is very difficult to get it spot on.

But any other ideas are still welcome.

Thanks again

Can u upload the image and explain what kind of colors u want, how u want that image to look like etc.?

firsr sure that the image is in RGB mode, then select each places u need to change color and take color balance, ctrl+b.
if u doing this for hard colors take hue/saturation, ctrl+u,

Best of luck

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Anees-India,
Young designer - wish to earn more skills from friends. could u.....?

Can u upload the image and explain what kind of colors u want, how u want that image to look like etc.?

Thank you for the help Student and here are the images:

Sorry I had to edit this message as the images are not loaded up.

I have to upload them to the net first it seems!:mad:

I'll do it later when I find my password to a test site I have used before.

But if you are around later, I could e-mail them to you. If it is OK by you.

Last edited by awa, January 27th, 2004 12:53 PM (Edited 1 times)

I am back again

Here are the images again Student

The Org'l:

http://www.freewebs.com/adelz/om%2Dorg.jpg

The coloured image I managed to do but still not happy with the colour values:

http://www.freewebs.com/adelz/om%2Dcoloured.jpg

The gown should be light to med creamy colour with woolen texture effect.

I hope you could help.

regards

Thanks Anees but I have tried that already first thing with knowing that it would not realy work as the image is old and quite poor in a way.

Thank you anyway.

Hey Sarah,
The links u provided are the links to this page(the page we r at right now),there were no images .